A recording medium with a multicolor high resolution pattern created by layer packs. Pattern-forming layers of the layer packs are successively applied by photolithographic means in a sequence corresponding to a color of the high resolution pattern. The pattern-forming layers of the layer packs are separate from one another on the substrate of the recording medium.The process for producing the recording medium includes applying a photoresist layer to a substrate and developing the photoresist. Pattern-forming layers are successively applied over the whole surface of the substrate in a sequence corresponding to a color. The remaining photoresist and the layers overlying it are removed to leave a sequence of pattern-forming layers on the substrate separate from any adjacent pattern-forming layers.